The word "beatitude" is correct and usable in written English.
It refers to a state of utmost bliss or happiness, often used in a religious or philosophical context.
Example: "The monk spoke of the beatitude that comes from a life of simplicity and devotion."
Alternatives: "bliss" or "joy".
It is a calm and placid beatitude.
And as a connoisseur of dope, the American must have a chat with De Quincey about the virtues of opium.The curious era in American culture that produced the beat generation (from beatitude or deadbeat: take your pick) was in some ways a reliving of England's 19th-century romantic movement.
Greek emphasis on the vision or contemplation (theōria) of God as the goal of human blessedness found a scriptural warrant in the sixth Beatitude: "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God" (Matthew 5 8).
It is a state of joyful calm, or even of rapture and beatitude, in which one maintains one's full mental alertness and acuity.
There is a note of almost Palmerian beatitude, certainly, in the way that the light illuminates slopes here and there, but it is a muffled note for all that.
The spiritual power of the guru is bestowed upon the newborn and converts, who receive the eightfold shield (which protects devotees from ignorance of the supremacy of God and guides them to final beatitude) and the lingam.
It is designed to promote the "felicity and beatitude" that are the ends of human life.
Where such views of human nature were held, salvation therefore meant the eternal beatitude of the disembodied soul.
The Last Judgment, which will then take place, will result in the eternal beatitude of the just, whose souls have been purified in purgatory, and the everlasting damnation of the wicked.
If he safely passed the test, he was declared maa kheru ("true of voice") and was admitted to the beatitude of the realm over which Osiris reigned.
Such subjects are of no profit for those who seek beatitude.
